MATLAB: Read a text file or not read it

skip reading text file

Hi I have a lot of text files.
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file1.txt
file2.txt.
.
.
.
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file100
i read this files with this function:
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for k=1:100
    fid=fopen(['file_' num2str(k)  '.txt']);
    if fid == -1, error('Cannot open file'),end         
    result{k,1}=textscan(fid,'%f %f %f %f %f');
    fclose(fid)
end
i want to scip reading file50.txt and file69.txt. How could i do this with matlab. tell hem not to read these both files? Thank you

Best Answer

Or if you do not want to hard code it:
result = cell(1, 100);
index  = 0; 
for k=1:100
  fid = fopen(['file_' num2str(k)  '.txt']);
  if fid ~= -1
    result{index, 1} = textscan(fid,'%f %f %f %f %f');
    fclose(fid)
  end
end
result = result(1:index);  % Crop empty cells
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